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Mac Watson

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It’s time to take a look at what’s happening around Wyoming for Friday, July 17th.  I’m Reece Cowan, filling in for Mac Watson

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A wall of water surged through East Thermopolis late Wednesday, stranding people and breaking a gas main after 4.5 inches of rain fell in an hour near the town. Cowboy State Daily’s Jackie Dorothy reports that one resident said he heard a roaring coming in his direction.

“It was a really intense two hours Wednesday night. It was clear skies. When at 10 o'clock a flash flood hit. One resident described it as a wall. He called 911, by the time he got a hold of dispatch, the wall of water had already hit his house. Another resident, she was actually trapped in her house. Morgan talked about going outside to rescue her dog. Once she got back in her house, Morgan said that she could feel it moving, and she really thought she was going to die. Chief Cornwall said that this is the worst flooding he has ever seen.”

Meteorologist Straub said that the thunderstorm that caused all the damage developed about 10 miles east of Thermopolis and just kind of sat there for about an hour and a half. 

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Megan Degenfelder’s campaign for Wyoming governor released a video early Thursday of President Donald Trump doubling down on his endorsement of her. Cowboy State Daily’s Clair McFarland reports that the push comes with a month to go before Wyoming’s hotly contested Republican Primary election. 

“We've got a month before the primary election, which in Wyoming generally involves a huge standoff between Republicans of all stripes, and Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder garnered the Trump endorsement back in January. Well the president doubled down on Thursday, reiterating his endorsement. Trump varies on when he gives endorsements, Dagenfelder's is among the earliest that we've ever seen. Seven months before the primary election. She said that she was deeply honored to have the president's support and grateful that he took the time to speak directly to the people of Wyoming.”

Trump has not endorsed anyone in the hotly-contested U.S. House race, where 10 Republicans vie for the nomination. He also hasn’t endorsed in Wyoming’s Secretary of State race or for other top state executive-branch seats. 

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Seven teens were arrested Wednesday in a sweeping western Nebraska raid over illegal machine guns and drugs. Cowboy State Daily’s Kolby Fedore reports that investigators say they found Instagram posts of the teens posing with and firing Glock-style guns equipped with illegal switches. 

“Federal authorities say that illegal Glock switches have become one of the fastest growing criminal trends that they're seeing in America, with a near 800% spike in the last few years, and that is reflected in a recent criminal case where seven teenagers in Western Nebraska were arrested on Wednesday for possessing these illegal machine guns as well as cocaine. All of the teenagers appeared for their initial hearing on Wednesday afternoon in Scottsbluff County Circuit Court. This criminal case came to light when investigators flagged suspicious activity on social media where they saw the stolen guns posted in videos and a series of pictures online. One of the defendants was even seen pointing it at another defendant.”

According to ATF, recoveries of suspected machine gun conversion devices traced by ATF increased from 658 in 2019 to 5,816 in 2023. Agency spokesperson Ashlee Sherrill tells Cowboy State Daily “they present a significant public safety concern." 

More than 23,000 birds and bats were killed by wind turbines in Wyoming in 2025, according to a report presented Wednesday to the state Game and Fish Commission. Cowboy State Daily’s Mark Heinz reports that according to an official “They’re flying around and they’re not paying attention to those blades.” 

“Game and Fish, they don't set the policy. It's the Industrial Siting Commission that really says yes or no. They're the ones that have the power over the licenses for these operations. What Game and Fish does is before the project is built, they come in and they work with the developer to kind of give them advice on how to mitigate or avoid conflicts with wildlife, and then after the fact, they will do some monitoring as well and maybe suggest some solutions. I also talked to an eagle advocate in Laramie, and she said, although she appreciates what the game and fish is doing or trying to do, she doesn't think it's enough.”

Wyoming Game and Fish habitat protection program supervisor Will Schultz tells Cowboy State Daily that, in some cases, painting one blade of a wind turbine black helps birds see it before it’s too late, adding that hundreds of hours of work and research have gone into wind farm risk mitigation. 

I’ll have more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this.

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Park County officials say a Wednesday flash flood nearly destroyed a bridge over the Shoshone River and cut off access for some county residents. Cowboy State Daily’s Andrew Rossi reports that one witness said “We watched a wall of debris build up and surging muddy water begin to overflow the banks.”

“Monsoonal moisture is moving into western Wyoming. That manifested as several short-lived but intense thunderstorms on Wednesday afternoon, and a mudslide and just an intense amount of flash flooding that came out of the mountains along the South Fork of the Shoshone River took out a bridge that serves a number of people and residences on a county road that's pretty far removed from Cody. Without that bridge, they have no access to the rest of the world. I spoke to the Cowboys State Daily meteorologist Don Day, and he said that the risk of monsoonal moisture and flash flooding is going to extend into the next week at least.”

The Park County Public Works Department hoped to have a temporary bridge installed across Boulder Creek by the end of Thursday. Park County engineer Brian Edwards told Cowboy State Daily that the compromised wooden bridge had already been “high on our priority list for replacement.”  

Although manufacturers of AI software that uses surveillance cameras to search for guns say it makes people safer, gun rights activists are alarmed. Cowboy State Daily’s Mark Heinz reports that Buffalo's Mark Jones, of Gun Owners of America, says it violates the Second and Fourth Amendments.

“There's software that's it's been around for a few years. It's been used in schools. It's software that helps camera surveillance cameras, pick up guns, firearms that that have been drawn or the out of a holster. The the idea being at least in the school it can help maybe catch a school shooting earlier. Hobbs, New Mexico, has expanded this to a municipal application. They've got about 70 cameras at different points around the city that have this software. I reached out to some some Second Amendment advocates and also a gun control advocate, and none of them are really fans of it.”

The technology has potential to do good, but only within narrow parameters that protect gun owners’ rights, said George Mocsary, University of Wyoming law professor and co-founder of the UW Firearms Research Center. 

A magnitude 3.3 earthquake in Yellowstone on Thursday was felt by people as far as 30 miles away. Cowboy State Daily’s Andrew Rossi reports that it’s the largest earthquake of the year so far in the national park.

“A magnitude 3.3 earthquake was detected in Yellowstone National Park around 720 a.m. this morning. So Yellowstone, on average, experiences between 15 120 500 earthquakes every year. This is the largest earthquake detected in 2026 so far, but that's not even that big of an earthquake by Yellowstone standards. The largest earthquake last year was a 3.9 and even that wasn't very big. So while a lot of people get apocalyptic, while a lot of people get apocalyptic any time they hear something about something shaking in Yellowstone, earthquakes are an almost everyday occurrence, and a 3.3 is indicative of nothing to be alarmed about.”

What the earthquake doesn’t indicate is any significant change in Yellowstone’s volcanic systems. Even at a depth of 4 miles, Thursday morning’s quake was too shallow to indicate anything volcanic, which is true for most of Yellowstone’s earthquakes. 

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The Galloping Horse is galloping again — or at least it will be when someone at The Wrangler turns the power on. Cowboy State Daily’s Greg Johnson reports that after years of being inoperable, the iconic 400-pound folk art cowboy was fixed, refurbished and put back in place Thursday morning. 

“The iconic galloping horse that for decades has sat over the entrance to the Wrangler Western Wire store in downtown Cheyenne hadn't been galloping for the last few years. A Cheyenne man who whose office is just across the road, finally decided, you know what, it needs to gallop again. So him and his brother and son got together and spent about 90 hours each, about almost 300 hours between them to restore this thing. They got a pretty prominent Cheyenne artist to paint it again to look pretty much original. And on Thursday morning, they put it up again, so they would be ready for Frontier Days.”

Thursday was a proud moment for Dennis, who explained he had the idea to get the Galloping Horse galloping again because he saw it every day and “every day I wished it was moving again.”

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Friday's headlines include

*Flood Wreaks Havoc In Thermopolis
*Trump Endorses Degenfelder For Second Time
*Teens Arrested For Machine Guns Near Wyo Border

Cowboy State Daily Video Newscast: Friday, July 17, 2026

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Outdoors

A Wyoming hunter is on a mission to untangle confusion over public and private land boundaries after repeatedly encountering "Private Property" and "No Trespassing" signs where the public should legally be allowed to travel or recreate.

Cheyenne resident Jon Farris says the issue isn't about advocating for hunters to ignore private property rights. It's about making sure public lands remain accessible when they legally should be.

"I want other people to be able to enjoy public lands the same way I do," Farris told Cowboy State Daily.

To help, Farris has created an email address where hunters, anglers and other outdoors enthusiasts can report locations they believe may be incorrectly marked as private. 

He hopes to research each case using county records, state maps and conversations with local officials before forwarding legitimate concerns to the appropriate agencies.

"If we can streamline that process, maybe we can get some of these corrected," he said.

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Farris said his interest in the issue began in 2024 while traveling in Carbon County.

A county road led toward national forest land, but along the route he encountered a sign declaring the road was crossed and private property.

"That was really what got me started in wondering how often this type of thing occurs," he said.

Since then, he said he has noticed similar situations in Carbon, Goshen and Laramie counties.

One example, he said, involved state land in Laramie County that was eventually reposted as public after previously being marked private.

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He said he also believes about 160 acres of state trust land within the historic Whitaker Ranch in Laramie County is marked in a way that could confuse visitors into believing it is entirely private.

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Even when land is publicly owned, that doesn't necessarily mean the public can legally reach it.

That's one point emphasized by Rob Weppner of the Whitaker Ranch, where nearly 40,000 acres of ranchland include parcels of state trust land.

Weppner acknowledged there are "No Trespassing" and "No Hunting" signs throughout portions of the property.

"The disconnect that I see in our area — I talk to a lot of hunters — is that in various places there's state land," he said. "But to have state land (for hunting), you need to have public access to it."

Many state trust parcels are effectively landlocked, surrounded by private property that cannot legally be crossed without permission.

"Knowing which roads in this county are actually public is really challenging," Weppner said. "It's very difficult to know what's what, which roads actually have legal access and which roads don't."

He said while a county road passes through part of his ranch, portions beyond that become private property, making the transition difficult for visitors to identify.

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Farris said he never encourages people to ignore posted signs or assume property is public. Instead, he urges hunters to verify land ownership before setting foot on questionable ground.

"Don't take 'No Trespassing' signs at face value," he said. "Go home and do your research."

His first stop is typically OnX, the popular digital mapping platform widely used by hunters and outdoor recreationists.

Farris photographs signs he encounters in the field, then compares their locations with OnX mapping and the Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments' GIS maps.

Because no mapping system is perfect, he said he compares multiple sources before drawing any conclusions.

 has been known to be off by a few yards, which is enough to potentially get users in trouble and charged with trespassing.

"It is important to check and get a clear answer from the state office before assuming it's public," he said.

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Melissa DeFratis, spokeswoman for the Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments (OSLI), said the agency regularly fields questions about land ownership and public access, particularly before and during hunting season.

The office serves as the administrative arm of the Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners, which oversees roughly 3.4 million acres of state trust land.

While DeFratis said it is not common for landowners to intentionally mark public land as private, she acknowledged it does happen.

She added that more often, misplaced signs are the result of honest mistakes, outdated information or confusion over property boundaries.

When questions arise, OSLI occasionally sends field staff to investigate and work with landowners to correct misplaced signs.

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Farris recalled one game warden telling him about a Goshen County landowner whose understanding of his property lines had been passed down through generations, based largely on where a relative decades earlier believed the boundary should be.

He also said he once was offered access to public land across private property — for a fee — which he declined.

Those experiences reinforced the need for better public understanding of Wyoming's complicated patchwork of federal, state and private lands, he said.

Rather than confronting landowners directly, Farris said he hopes his volunteer effort will encourage people to document questionable situations, verify the facts and work through the proper channels.

"I've seen this all over," he said. "If we can get the right information to the right people, hopefully we can clear up some of the confusion."

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A Wyoming hunter is on a mission to undo confusion after repeatedly encountering "Private Property" and "No Trespassing" signs where the public should legally be allowed. "Knowing which roads are actually public is really challenging,” said a landowner.

Wyoming Hunter Wants To Clear Up Confusion Over Public Lands Marked ‘Private’

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Jackie Dorothy

Wyoming Life

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It was raining lightly outside at about 10 p.m. when Steve Nally of East Thermopolis heard a sudden sound that brought him outside to his porch.

“I heard this roaring coming in my direction,” Nally said. “I saw a wall of water coming down around the van, and it looked like it was 10 feet tall.”

dialed 911, and by the time he got through, the water was already getting close the road.

"You need to send rescue out here,” Nally told the operator. “We're in trouble."

By the time he hung up, the flood water was already up to the skirting of 

“From there, it just went crazy,” Nally said. “I hollered for my wife to come out when I first saw it, and by the time she got out there it was already up to the house, and it just kept getting worse and worse, going on the highway.”

That water came from a deluge of about 4.25 inches of rain in an hour, which is close to half what the town typically gets in a year, said Cowboy State Daily meteorologist Don Day.

“I heard from someone in Thermopolis that they got 4.25 inches of precipitation in one hour on Wednesday,” he said. “Thermopolis usually gets around 9 inches of precipitation in the whole year.”

The flash flood was “classic monsoon” behavior, he said, the result of several intense thunderstorms reported throughout northwest Wyoming on Wednesday. 

Nally said that he saw the lights from emergency vehicles 

responding to help people caught in the torrent,

 but the road was already so flooded that they could only get so close.

“They showed a light over here to see if I was OK. I said, 'Yeah, but check on those people,' because I hadn't seen anything but them, because they couldn't get out the front door,” Nally said.

He was referring to a trailer house where 24-year-old Morgan Jacobs 

. Her trailer is in a low valley where a culvert was directing the water.

Thermopolis Chief of Police Pat Cornwall said that he had only seen the area flood once before, and that Wednesday night's was the worse he had ever seen.

Once the waters began to recede, Cornwall made the decision to wade through waist-deep water to rescue the young woman and her dog, who were stranded in the trailer.

“We waited probably about 15 minutes, and I could tell that the water was starting to recede back, but it was still rushing in (and) this gal is scared to death,” Cornwall said. “When I got to the front steps, they were full of debris, so I had to clear it out of the way just to get in the front door.

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Cornwall reassured the young woman she was safe and told her to pack a bag.

“She had ankle-deep water inside the house,” Cornwall said. “She had her dog and a rabbit, and she's a younger gal, so I could understand why she was so scared.”

Cornwall said that when he got inside her home, the entire house was full of mud and it felt like it was rocking.

“I just calmed her down,” Cornwall said. “I told her to pack a bag and that I'd piggyback her out of there once she was ready. I think she was more worried about the whole trailer starting to float away because it was pushing so hard against that trailer.”

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“The chief waited a few minutes because we could tell the water was going down, so it wasn't quite as risky,” Sorensen said. “He tested the water a couple of times and came back out. 

"Once he thought it was a calculated risk, he went over and sat with her until the fire department could get in and carry her out, along with her dog.”

Once they got Jacobs safely out of the house, Cornwall continued to survey the damage and realized her car had been swept about 75 feet away.

Attempts to reach Jacobs were unsuccessful by publication.

Jacobs told Cowboy State Daily that the flood came up so fast, she had no time to react or get out.

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“She started whining, and then it became an extreme whining, so immediately I was alerted and I thought something had happened,” Jacobs said. “So I had gone outside.

“I didn’t make it two steps off of my office stairs into my house before I realized that everything was underwater. There was nowhere for me to go.”

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“The water was moving so fast, and it almost looked like a waterfall in flash-flood form,” she said. “It was pulling just so extreme.”

It didn’t take long after retreating into her home that Jacobs said she became aware that she wasn’t out of danger.

“When we got into the house, I realized that our situation had gravely changed directions,” Jacobs said. “The water was coming up through the vents and the floorboards. It was filling the hall, the bathroom. There was nowhere there wasn’t water, and it was coming fast.”

After trying to call her boyfriend, Jacobs said she spent 26 minutes on the phone with a 911 operator “just begging for her not to let me die."

I genuinely didn’t think I was going to make it out,” she continued. “I could feel the house moving like we were on a boat, and it just got worse and worse.

By the time emergency responders arrived, they couldn’t immediately get to her as they worked to cut off power to the home. Then Chief Cornwall got there.

“As I waited, he found a light and he had made his way across the yard into the house to sit there with me and comfort me,” Jacobs said. “I will never forget the feeling of seeing somebody come to my rescue and knowing that I’m not alone and that I’m not going to die by myself.”

Now she’s waking up to the reality that her home is a total loss and “my car is three houses down,” Jacobs said. “I swear it was parked next to my house last night. It’s filled with water.

“Everything we owned is just totaled, and it doesn’t look like my landlord’s insurance is going to cover it.”

Despite that, Jacobs said she’s “thankful for everybody who showed up for us and who is continuing to show up for us."

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The National Weather Service in Riverton issued its first warning for flash floods at 5:22 p.m. Wednesday for the Thermopolis area, and continued advisories and warnings until about 1:30 a.m., said meteorologist Jason Straub.

“There is a flood watch in effect again (Thursday) pretty much from Thermopolis northwest toward Cody,” Straub said. “This same scenario is possible for the next several days.”

 areas now are pretty saturated, which means

 any small thunderstorms can develop more quick flooding to any little creek that hasn't seen a lot of water recently.

“This same scenario is possible the next several days,” Straub said. “If anybody sees floodwater, we just advise ‘turn around, don't drown.' You don't know what the depth of the water might be.”

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Sorensen had heard reports of the flood and went with her husband Basil to see what was going on. They own property in the area and arrived to see the home surrounded by water.

Eleven-year-old Micah Moon had gone outside at about 9:45 p.m. when he saw the flood rush down the street at his home in East Thermopolis.

“I thought there was just lots of rats going down the street,” Micah said. “Then I looked closer and realized it was water.”

He ran inside and got his dad, Joe, who watched as the flood surrounded the house.

“Water was on both sides of our house,” his dad said. “It was just flooding, and there were emergency crews out here, the fire department, and everybody.

“They had some roads blocked off, and it was just rushing down that creek there. It's devastating.”

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G.R. Davis was visiting Thermopolis from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.  

“Nothing like a natural disaster to welcome you to town,” Davis said. “My daughter noticed some police lights about 9:45, we came outside, and the water had already come up and had gone back down.

“It had already peaked and was receding ... in just a short amount of time.”

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“It just seemed like it lasted for a couple of hours,” Nally said. “Just water everywhere. It was horrific, (and) kind of hard to describe. It was the first time I'd seen that much water that way. I've seen it once before, but this just came down so fast.”

During the flood, Nally said he and his wife Donna had tried to get out the back door, but by the time they got to the door, the water was already around back.

“I guess we could have waded through it because it wasn't swift back there, but we didn't,” Nally said. “We just stood here and didn't know how much worse it was going to get.”

Joe Moon said that at his place several blocks from Spring Creek, the water had reached the rims on his truck and had washed his wood pile away.

“It took somebody's shed down in the creek over here,” Moon said. “At least a foot of water was running down this alley. It’s not good.”

Once the water receded a little bit, Sorensen said that she kept hearing a strange glugging sound.  

“Everybody was looking at one another, and then we got the smell,” Sorensen said. “All at once everybody said, 'Oh no, that is a gas line.'”

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“The gas line was shooting up out of there for quite a while until they got it shut off last night,” Davis said.

According to Sorensen, the fire department plugged it off once the water had receded enough to safely do so.

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Joe Moon and Nally both said that it wasn’t raining that hard when the flash flood hit.

Meteorologist Straub said that the thunderstorm that caused all the damage developed about 10 miles east of Thermopolis and just kind of sat there for about an hour and a half.

“All of this moisture flowing across creeks that haven't seen a whole lot of moisture recently isn't going to absorb quickly,” Straub said. “So some of this floodwater was able to make it into East Thermopolis.”

Straub explained that the overarching impact was that they hada lot of monsoon moisture moving across western Wyoming yesterday. Little showers and thunderstorms were popping up here and there in isolated areas.

The thunderstorm that caused this flash flood had developed an estimated precipitation accumulation of between 2 and 4 inches.

Shane Rankin, the road supervisor for the Hot Springs County Road and Bridge, said this is the worse flooding he had seen.

“It didn't even really rain that hard in town, but I've heard reports of Lucerne Valley getting 2½ inches in an hour and the Buffalo Creek/Kirby Creek area getting up to 4 inches in an hour,” Rankin said.  

Rankin had been called out at 10 p.m. to start closing down Buffalo Creek and Kirby Creek roads. The road closure has been lifted since they are passable, but Buffalo Creek Road remains closed to through traffic.

“Talking with some ranchers up on Buffalo Creek, it's the worst they've seen,” Rankin said. “It pulled fences out of the ground and stretched them across the road.

“It washed over the road in several spots, but we never lost the road anywhere. It remains intact, but all the gravel washed off in those places.”

Rankin said the county is going to have a couple of weeks of repairs to do once it dries out.

“Roads are still passable, but we do have some major damage in places where it's going to take us a while to fix,” Rankin said.

Joe Moon is already surveying the damage around his own home and said that he has about 2 inches of water in his garage. He has about a half inch of mud all the way around his place and his family is just trying to get out without wading through mud.

“It washed the little bridge out over here near east Thermopolis,” he said. “The bridge is literally hanging off into the creek, and they just redid that when a flood happened eight years ago.”

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“I was amazed — our house was surrounded by water, but it was dry inside,” she said. “Our yard is a debris field.”

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A wall of water surged through East Thermopolis late Wednesday, stranding people and breaking a gas main after 4.5 inches of rain fell in an hour near the town. "You need to send rescue out here. We’re in trouble,” one resident said when he called 911.

‘We’re In Trouble’: East Thermopolis Floods After 4.5 Inches Of Rain In An Hour

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Mark Heinz

More than 23,000 birds and bats were killed by wind turbines in Wyoming in 2025, according to a report presented Wednesday to the state Game and Fish Commission. “They’re flying around and they’re not paying attention to those blades,” said an official.

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